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Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic

Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic

Raisbeck, Joanna

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Series: Germanic Literatures, Book 26

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1839540265
ISBN13: 9781839540264
Publisher: Legenda
Published: Jun 16 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Karoline von Günderrode's biography - and in particular her early death - have long overshadowed an appreciation of her literary works. Closer attention to her poems, prose writings and plays reveals Günderrode's remarkable engagement with the philosophical, literary, and scientific debates of her age. Joanna Raisbeck's study is the first to uncover a consistent theme throughout Günderrode, one which stems from the desire to combat the prevalent philosophical dangers of both materialism and atheism. Günderrode, it emerges, is the most consistent thinker of Spinozist pantheism - the idea that God and nature are the same - not just in German Romanticism, but in her age. Günderrode uses a new interpretation of Spinoza as a means to write about questions of determinism, autonomy, and what differences there might be, if at all, between humankind and nature.

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